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Roseworm :: Roseworm (n.) The larva of any one of several species of lepidopterous insects which feed upon the leaves, buds, or blossoms of the rose, especially Cacaecia rosaceana, which rolls up the leaves for a nest, and devours both the leaves and buds..

Lady''s Bower :: Lady's bower () A climbing plant with fragrant blossoms (Clematis vitalba).

Blowth :: Blowth (n.) A blossoming; a bloom.

Embloom :: Embloom (v. t.) To emblossom.

Metamorphosis :: Metamorphosis (n.) A change in the form or function of a living organism, by a natural process of growth or development; as, the metamorphosis of the yolk into the embryo, of a tadpole into a frog, or of a bud into a blossom. Especially, that form of sexual reproduction in which an embryo undergoes a series of marked changes of external form, as the chrysalis stage, pupa stage, etc., in insects. In these intermediate stages sexual reproduction is usually impossible, but they ultimately pass into

Synanthous :: Synanthesis (n.) The simultaneous maturity of the anthers and stigmas of a blossom.

Vespertine :: Vespertine (a.) Blossoming in the evening.

Flowering :: Flowering (n.) The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification..

Mary-bud :: Mary-bud (n.) The marigold; a blossom of the marigold.

Gillyflower :: Gillyflower (n.) A name given by old writers to the clove pink (Dianthus Caryophyllus) but now to the common stock (Matthiola incana), a cruciferous plant with showy and fragrant blossoms, usually purplish, but often pink or white..

Flamboyer :: Flamboyer (n.) A name given in the East and West Indies to certain trees with brilliant blossoms, probably species of Caesalpinia..

Horsewood :: Horsewood (n.) A West Indian tree (Calliandra latifolia) with showy, crimson blossoms..

Florescence :: Florescence (n.) A bursting into flower; a blossoming.

Feverfew :: Feverfew (n.) A perennial plant (Pyrethrum, / Chrysanthemum, Parthenium) allied to camomile, having finely divided leaves and white blossoms; -- so named from its supposed febrifugal qualities..

Nectary :: Nectary (n.) That part of a blossom which secretes nectar, usually the base of the corolla or petals; also, the spur of such flowers as the larkspur and columbine, whether nectariferous or not. See the Illustration of Nasturtium..

Serotinous :: Serotinous (a.) Appearing or blossoming later in the season than is customary with allied species.

Flower :: Flower (n.) In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage..

Yucca :: Yucca (n.) A genus of American liliaceous, sometimes arborescent, plants having long, pointed, and often rigid, leaves at the top of a more or less woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms..

Blast :: Blast (v. i.) To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom..

Blosmy :: Blosmy (a.) Blossomy.

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